Why has sexual violation by
powerful men, covered up, denied, suppressed, and repressed for so long,
become a powerful theme in the American media in the fall of 2017? The
primary focus is overwhelmingly on older men inappropriately touching or
displaying their bodies to women. Why are men, whose predecessors usually
got away with rape, now being exposed, shamed, forced to retire, and
sometimes fired for unwanted touching? Male sexual privilege is now being
challenged as never before. What makes for this change of standards?

Clearly women are finding
their voice in the face of misconduct and sexual abuse; the media and
society are generally more inclined to listen to them than they were
previously. A substantial collective voice is now rising against these
longstanding sexual violations. Blaming the victim by saying they were
“asking for it” is now being challenged. At a glance these changes seem
related to greater acceptance of women outside of the home and having more
positions of power, feminist ideas, greater societal empathy, more outlets
for expression in the face of mistreatment (such as on social media), and a
president who bragged about his violation of women. In this issue we are
searching for more in-depth psychodynamic reasons as well.

Human touching and sexuality
are clearly complex issues. People hug and kiss far more freely than they
did when the editor of our journal was growing up. While we are open to
many causal factors, our focus in this issue is on the psychodynamic forces
underlying these changes. Our perspective is psychological with a
preference for case studies. We are looking for articles commenting on one
or more of the following:

Why in America have the barriers
to making these issues public broken down?

To what extent is the openness
about these abuses related to the Trump presidency?

The varied response to charges of
sexual abuse

The “casting couch” in Hollywood
and the Weinstein case

Therapies for sexual misconduct
and their effectiveness

Charges for political purposes and
fantasies of sexual intrusion

How celebrities, politicians,
businessmen, and the wealthy deal with the erotic transference

Sexual abuse and sexual fantasy in
the Freudian tradition

The Congressional Accountability
Act as Congressional payoff and cover-up

The #MeToo movement

Legislation on sex and sexual
violation throughout history

The complexities of gender &
sexuality

Cases of a rush to judgment
without due process, ruining a person’s career

Rape as a part of ethnic
cleansing, genocide, the Holocaust, and in war

Misogyny in history and its
implications for the sexual violation of women

An abstract or outline by
April 1st, 2018 would be helpful. Send them as attached Microsoft Word
document (*.docx) files to cliospsycheeditor@gmail.com.It is the style
of our scholarly quarterly to publish thought-provoking, clearly written
articles based upon psychological/psychoanalytic insight, and developed with
examples from history, current events, and the human experience. We are
open to all psychological approaches and prefer that articles be
personalized (we especially like case studies) without
psychoanalytic/psychological terminology or jargon and without foot/
endnotes or a bibliography (use internal citations for quotations).
Submissions the editors deem suitable are anonymously refereed.

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